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May 22, 2024 · In “Notting Hill’s” key romantic moment, a marker of class privilege is repurposed from elitist to intimate and quaint. Who could forget the scene?
Feb 28, 2024 · Notting Hill has long been a byword for gentrification. After its nadir in the 1950s and 1960s, with race riots and unscrupulous landlords, the west London district rose at dizzying speed. A kind...
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The neighbourhood has always been the subject of huge controversy. In the 19th Century, the area including Grenfell was labelled the ‘West End Avernus’, which, in Virgil’s Aeneid, is the name of the entrance to the underworld and its inferno full of charred cadavers. Once known as the ‘Potteries and Piggeries’ or Notting Dale, this area was describ...
While the rest of London grumbled about the state of Notting Dale, Notting Hill proper (Notting derived from the Anglo Saxon first name Cnotta while the ‘ing’ denotes a Saxon settlement) became an unswerving example of class privilege and elitism. Architect Thomas Allason created grand townhouses with private communal gardens at back looking like a...
In the mid Fifties, Notting Hill was a favourite haunt for cosh and razor wielding Teddy Boys. Not known for their racial equanimity, the Teds were really not very happy to see West Indians moving into the area, after the 1948 Nationality Act. These new arrivals occupied decaying bedsits, carved out of expansive four storey Victorian terraced homes...
On Saturday 23 August nine local Teddy Boys met in Notting Hill armed with cudgels, iron bars, razors and knives determined to fight the West Indian community. By the end of their mission, three men were lying critical in the hospital while another two were badly hurt. The following Friday 29th an altercation occurred outside Latimer Road Tube Stat...
In 2002, withheld reports by rank-and-file Police eyewitness came to light that confirm that the riots were overwhelmingly the work of a white working class mob. The documents also divulge that the Government’s Colonial Office requests to address the racial bigotry in Notting Hill were rejected by the Home Office while the West Indian commissioner ...
- The real history of Notting Hill - The artist skewering white privilege With the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement over the past couple of years, Joseph's work feels as if it could...
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1 day ago · Notting Hill Genesis has boosted its operating surplus and turnover in the first half of the financial year. The 67,500-home association, in the six months to 30 September, posted turnover of £363.1m, a 9.8% increase on the same period the previous year. Its operating surplus increased 29% to £100.7m over the same period.
The impact of the 1958 Notting Hill riots tends to figure in histories of the political right, as a galvanizing force for anti-immigrant sentiment—or as radical catalyst in the transnational history of the Black Atlantic.
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Jan 11, 2024 · For British Vogue’s February 2024 cover story, Richard Curtis interviews Julia Roberts about her dazzling, Oscar-winning career and the rom-coms that launched it, including Notting Hill. When the film premiered in 1999, however, the magazine ran an interview with its leading man rather than Roberts.
